Underwater trails

And that is done under its "roof"? Every tourist can swim, can look under the water and walk along the bottom of seas, lakes and rivers. Outfit for a first acquaintance with the underwater kingdom of simple and can be purchased at sporting goods stores. Rubber mask with an oval glass protects the eyes and allows you to see under water is as clear as on earth. A simple breathing tube, one end of which you hold in your mouth, and the other sticks in the water, allows hours of swimming, hanging face down and look at the bottom, without lifting his head for inspiration. The tube does not contain a reserve of air. If you want to dive, hold your breath, and rising to the surface, make a vigorous breath, "fyrkni" into the phone, and got there the water fountain will fly up. When diving at a depth of 2-3 m can feel the pain in my ears. To make this unpleasant sensation pro-passed, it is necessary, as saying the submarine, "blow the ears" - to make some swallowing movements or hold down the edge of the nose mask and inflate them. Air at the same time from the nasopharynx by the Eustachian tubes thin "to drive" in the cavity of the middle ear and equalizes pressure out there - the diver feels a pleasant clicking in the ears, after which the pain goes away. Fins, worn on the feet will help a long time to swim without tiring. Here, perhaps, and all the wisdom for the first underwater steps. Buoyancy man in a mask and fins so large that sufficient minimum effort to stay on the surface and hover over the bottom. In addition to masks and flippers, those who are fond of the underwater world, seriously master the reliable and easy-contained breathing apparatus, scuba. Supplies compressed air in its cylinders can be long at depths of up to 40 meters and swim freely under water, covering great distances. In the sailing club that everyone can get the necessary knowledge and practical skills that will give the right to dive with an aqualung. I'm not going to teach the reader to the underwater sport. I just want to advise tourists never had seen with my own eyes underwater and start on a campaign to "big" water, to find a place in your backpack for a set number 1, as it is called a mask, snorkel and flippers. Everyone who goes on the routes the Black Sea coast, on the shores of other seas, lakes and rivers, the transparency that lets you see the bottom, can do for yourself excitement of discovery, looking into the unseen world. With what, you can catch the water? Transparency and water temperature play an important role for underwater swimmers. These conditions primarily determine the possibility of observing in any pond. Summer for tourists underwater expanse to the south shores of our seas, where you can swim for a long time in the ordinary bathing suit, and where water clarity is good almost everywhere. In the northern and Far Eastern seas and in the lake, Lake Sevan, Issyk-Kul and in the numerous lakes of glacial origin transparency of water in some places than in the Black Sea, but without a wetsuit there a long time for a swim. Incidentally, the usual sailor's vest, or body-hugging shape knitted underwear rescue from the cold in the water and freedom of movement to the plunger. The most clear water and interesting underwater landscapes are usually found in stony and rocky shores. In Crimea, for example, of great interest in coastal cliffs Karadag, near Feodosia. Here, a ridge of hills and jagged cliffs fits almost to the waves. If you walk along a narrow strip of coast from Planerskogo to Karadag biological station, you have to sometimes go swimming as trail ends at the foot of the cliffs, and goes into the depths of the sea. "Hands" winds and heavy rain, many top of the rocks on this coast, transformed into giant sculptures, which are particularly clearly visible from the sea. "King" and "queen" in solemn poses, accompanied by "entourage", move to the "throne", in various positions frozen fantasy figures of people and animals ... Huge boulders and whole rock slide into the sea during the eruption sometime in effect here of the volcano to form at the bottom of the majestic landscape. The tops of underwater rocks, covered with brown-green tsistozoroy, the most common algae in the Black Sea, are even more convoluted and fantastic shapes, than the rock surface. Mysterious caves, narrow crevices, from which suddenly bursts a bright beam of light, the blue abyss, enveloped in blue-gray haze, seem so unusual that it's hard sometimes to believe in their reality. To put into words a feeling that covers a person at such a landscape, it is impossible, it must be experienced. Protected cliffs stretch along the shore one after another quiet bay: "Fox", "Partsilanovaya", "cornelian", "Golden Gate" - a paradise for underwater tourist, hunter, photographer. In these bays you can meet the majority of the Black Sea fauna and flora. Bottom is covered with small colored pebbles, honed and polished by the waves and the time the wreckage of various minerals attract amateur collectors. Everywhere, from shallow water, you are surrounded by underwater inhabitants, most of which did not at first notice. Near the coast in the stones shall see you can "put a lot of small crabs, shrimp various shapes, funny hermit crabs who hide their soft body into the empty sink and drag it everywhere on me. Nimble fish-dog, like playing a game, wag their tails, turning from stone to stone. They are trusting, allows him to come to his person, but to grab a fish you can not: as soon stretch out her hand, she instantly bounces a little way off and freezes on a stone. At a depth of 2-3 m, among large rocks and bushes tsistozory can see a very beautiful zelenuh. All the colors of the rainbow sheen of their scales in a marriage dress. Here we come across "hazel" - curious, but shy fish brown in blue stripes, which often go in pairs. Sea carp, or Laskary, silver with black stripe flat fish are kept in small flocks. U of rock in the sun like spinning a monk - the sea swallows their forked tail like a swallow. Monk are black and bright blue, they are usually almost no fear of man and allows him to come close to him. You should always see a jellyfish-Aurelia, her body like the open matte white with pink or blue tint parachute, gently swaying in the water column. Another jellyfish - Peel or kornerot, more beautiful, and her pale-blue dome is edged with a bright blue stripe from under him, like the lush white lace, dangling legs, which better not touch, they burn like a nettle. Mullet notice issued by a silvery sheen. Favorite "game" of submarine hunter, the mullet became timid, and well worth it to see pinnipeds swimmer as she scuttle. An unforgettable sight is the floating ramp-hvostokol. This big, strong fish like a bird. Its flat body, black top and white below, is shaped like a diamond. Ample fins, like wings, sometimes reaching in scope to two meters. Long round tail to the form of a whip, it sticks up a sharp serrated knife - a spike. The wounds inflicted by stingrays are very painful and did not heal, because Spike has yadonosnye cancer. Hvostokol - a peaceful fish, and if it does not touch it, she never fought back. The closest counterpart hvostokola - spotted reddish-brown thrasher. Body and tail of the fish covered with spikes, for which he also called the spiny rays. Thrasher likes sandy bottom, where it did not immediately notice. Spikes, as in hvostokola bear poisonous mucus. Among other poisonous fish, which are best left alone, in the Black Sea can be seen a sea dragon and sea-prazhnu ruff-skorpenu. Prazhna - small fish, like a bull, likes to burrow into the sand and hunt there prey - small crustaceans. Sharp rays of its dorsal fin covered with toxic slime. Skorpenu you learn on the big head and close-set eyes fixed, all in the thorns, she looks pretty scary. Variegated color from brown to gray-brown with pale bright yellow or red spots tones is it a good disguise. Scorpion fish is usually lurking in the shadows for a mnya and waits for prey - unwary fish, swimming by, quickly disappearing into its wide mouth. Marine ruff - a tasty fish, but missed his bare hands is not necessary, and before cleaning, it is better to cut off the fins and venomous spines. Floating over submerged rocks, you can see the big solemn, slow-moving slabs. Brown with a bluish tint dark slab like hanging in the water, barely moving their fins, but, sensing danger, quickly hides in a crevice or under naymen. Amazingly beautiful sight represent schools of fish, whether it's fine silver anchovy, sharp-nosed garfish and horse mackerel swift. Invisible master pack makes all the fish follow the exact procedure and the right direction when encountering danger. Certainly your discovery will be a large crab. Purple-orange color, with powerful claws kraberifiya ramp as soon as he is approached. Grab a crab can only be on the back, clutching his terrible claws to the body. Courageous battle with the crab will be rewarded: his flesh, roasted in the fire, very tasty. Set clams inhabit the Black Sea waters. On the rocks, like sticky, stick the cone-shaped clamshell Patella, sometimes entirely covered with rocks edible mussels, bivalves have dark shell, inside which hides delicate white body mollusk. Beautiful orange-red clamshell RAPANA - nice find, but to dive for it will have a depth of 4-5 m. It is difficult to list even a portion of all the inhabitants of the underwater world, you will face in the Black Sea. And those that I mentioned can be seen not only in the Karadag bays, but all along the coast of Crimea. Great interest for tourists underwater in the Crimea coastal waters present in the areas of the New World, Kuchuk Lambata, Gurzuf Simeiza, Foros, and in other places. Near the working area located base athletes submarine, where you can get advice on diving issues and routes. Yet no detailed tourist maps, which can be preselected underwater route, but I'm sure they will. And no one did not cause surprise if the tourist trail descends into the sea and next goes to the bottom. Symbols point to the bottom topography, water transparency and attractions, which will meet the traveler. The more such "isplavannyh" trope, the less will be the "white spots" on the ground.